Believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written-it is written by leaders.

You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you’ve closed for the day and flips the board.

You cannot run a multimillion-dollar business like you would a lemonade stand.

There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.

Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life.

If you don't demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.

The glass is always completely full-half air and half liquid.

To see your-self you must first be yourself, to be your-self you must first know yourself, and to know your-self you must first love your-self more than anything in the world."-Mark Miller

The best leaders want to leverage all the capabilities of the people in their organization.

You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.

Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness.

When you see recurring problems, the methods you’ve used successfully in the past have to be reevaluated.

Many of our leadership practices have gone from being tried and true to being tired and tarnished.

When you don’t have time to do your job, that’s a good indication you’re playing the wrong game.